Business

Business

Steve Jobs And Sarah Jessica Parker Are Being Sued

9:45AM Rosa Golijan | In 1989, Franz Wakefield invented the iPod, iPhone and iTunes. Then the FBI stole his trade secrets and he confided in Sarah Jessica Parker and now he’s suing her and Apple…and my head’s spinning. More »
Business

New NYC Best Buy Will Be Open 24 Hours And Host Concerts

6:10AM Adam Frucci | A week from today, a brand new Best Buy is opening in the space on Union Square South that Circuit City used to reside. But this is no ordinary Best Buy. More »
Business

Eric Schmidt Takes The Gloves Off With Microsoft

4:17AM Adam Frucci | There’s no love lost between Google and Microsoft, at least based on a recent interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. More »
Business

Why Steve Jobs Didn’t Take Over Apple Back In 1997

7:59AM Jesus Diaz | Back in 1997, Larry Ellison was on a beach in Hawaii. After sipping his second Margarita that evening, he turned to his pal Steve Jobs who was listening to Bob Dylan in his Sony Walkman. “Steve…Steve…STEVE! Hey, let’s buy Apple.” More »
Business

Apple Ad God Lee Clow’s Work — A Look Back

7:18AM The Business Insider | Lee Clow stepped down as the chief creative officer of TBWA/Media Arts Lab, Ad Age reports. Clow and TBWA/Media Arts were responsible for many of Apple’s most popular advertisements. More »
Business

How Palm Lost (Like Apple In The ’80s)

6:38AM John Herrman | The Droid and Android 2.0 as a whole, isn’t going to kill the iPhone. That’s ridiculous. It’s going to team up with the iPhone and straight up murder the Palm Pre and possibly others. Here’s why. More »
Business

Sprint’s Still Bleeding, But Not As Badly

1:54AM Matt Buchanan | It’s been crazy watching Sprint overhaul itself over the last year, going from a wasteland of phones to probably the number two carrier for hardware in the US, so I feel kinda bad that they still bled out over 800,000 postpaid customers this past quarter. (Postpaid are the customers carriers actually want, vs. people who prepay for chunks of minutes.) More »
Games

Why Nintendo Had To Slash The Price Of The Wii

11:33PM Matt Buchanan | It’s time for Nintendo to resort to its classic rainbow strategy to sell more Wiis: Its net profit for the past six months fell by 50 per cent, almost perfectly matching a near 50 per cent drop in Wii sales. More »
GPS

Microsoft Pulling The Plug On MSN Direct In 2012

8:15AM Sean Fallon | While it’s probably not the first casualty of the Google GPS navigation bombshell, the fact remains — Microsoft is pulling the plug on their MSN Direct service on January 1st, 2012. More »
Business

Google And The Deadly Power Of Data

5:30AM Wilson Rothman | Today, as soon as Google showed off its beta GPS navigator, the stocks of Garmin, TomTom and other companies in that industry fell into the toilet. It’s hard to compete with free Google apps, but that’s not why they’re screwed… More »